Tim McGraw’s Anti-Gun Concert Has Taken Another Humiliating Hit

Country Music’s Tim McGraw made a mistake in his strategy and lost a large part of his fan base by headlining a concert for the anti-gun group Sandy Hook Promise. Then he compounded that problem by attempting to defend his decision: “As a gun owner, I support gun ownership,” McGraw argued in his statement. “I also believe that with gun ownership comes the responsibility of education and safety — most certainly when it relates to what we value most, our children.”

Now, to add insult to injury, at least eleven families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy have distanced themselves from Sandy Hook Promise and made it clear they were not affiliated with the group in any way.

According to Breitbart, NBC reported that the group of families issued the statement “to clarify the issue for donors who might believe they are directly supporting the victims’ families.”

The families are concerned that the anti-gun group “is at times wrongly assumed to speak for all 26 victims’ families.”

McGraw’s response to Breitbart’s original reporting of the upcoming fundraiser concert, said, “Through a personal connection, I saw first-hand how the Sandy Hook tragedy affected families and I felt their pain.” He added, “The concert is meant to do something good for a community that is recovering.”

The concert, however, appears to be a fundraising event for a gun-control group with member Mark Barden dedicating “the rest of his life” to fighting for gun control measures.

Norfolk Daily News quoted the 11 families saying: “We wish only to provide clarification for the many generous donors that believe they are directly supporting the families at the center of this tragedy by contributing to the Sandy Hook Promise [organization].”

It seems there’s something rotten at the core of the Sandy Hook Promise group. Perhaps McGraw is just unaware.

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Tim Black is a software developer, author, day trader and real estate investor. He's been known to do some rock climbing, backpacking, off-roading, shooting and keyboard playing. He spends much of his time in the Dallas TX area.
In addition to NoozSaurus, Tim writes the occasional guest blog at Technorati.com and WinnersEdgeTrading.com.
I have a wonderful wife and BFF of 38 years, two awesome kids, one awesome foster kid, two awesome sons-in-law and several dozen kids that call me Daddo. :) Yes, God has richly blessed me.
If you want to know more about me, message me and we’ll do coffee. I like coffee. :)

It’s sad that Tim McGraw didn’t vet the group that he’s supporting. This is a total anti-gun group. The fact that 11 families are totally distancing themselves from the group says a lot too.

I will never pay another dime towards Tim McGraw’s pockets again. I used to love his music but this has completely turned me away from his music. I refuse to pay homage to someone who doesn’t do his homework and who doesn’t support the constitution and the principles that our country was founded on. Sad.

From a guy who was born an raised in La. I am ashamed to say Tim McGraw is from the same state. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but when you force your liberal swamp juice down someone else throat, especially w/him being in the position he is in, he is infringing on mine and everyone else’s liberty to exercise their own constitutional rights. He needs to stick to what he is good at, play and sing music. Stay out of others business Tim McGraw.

I am disappointed that Tim is supporting an anti gun group and I am tired of hearing about Sandy Hook altogether. …time to move on already!!!! There are other people who have suffered great tragedy and they have moved forward with their lives….time for Sandy Hook to do the same!!!!!!